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I am a long time lurker but never have posted on the City-Data board. I enjoy the HR bashing the most. So many times I wanted to register and fight for my career field but never got around to it.
My name is Alice and I work as a Human Resources Manager for a financial company of about 400 employees in Midtown Manhattan. I have been there one year after getting a Masters Degree in HR from Marymount University and experience as a HR Generalist.
NYC is one tough town but being a HR Manager is even tougher. The politics and criticism directed at me and my staff is incredible. They blame me for everything that is wrong with the company. Benefits, compensation rates, small holiday bonuses, layoffs, terminations of popular but incompetent employees, hiring of incompetent employees (that were selected by the manager not HR), aloof uncommunicative executives, and general bad morale.
I got my last performance appraisal and was blamed for most of these things. I told them it was out of my control, but was ignored.
What do you think, are the things above my fault as HR Manager?
I am a long time lurker but never have posted on the City-Data board. I enjoy the HR bashing the most. So many times I wanted to register and fight for my career field but never got around to it.
My name is Alice and I work as a Human Resources Manager for a financial company of about 400 employees in Midtown Manhattan. I have been there one year after getting a Masters Degree in HR from Marymount University and experience as a HR Generalist.
NYC is one tough town but being a HR Manager is even tougher. The politics and criticism directed at me and my staff is incredible. They blame me for everything that is wrong with the company. Benefits, compensation rates, small holiday bonuses, layoffs, terminations of popular but incompetent employees, hiring of incompetent employees (that were selected by the manager not HR), aloof uncommunicative executives, and general bad morale.
I got my last performance appraisal and was blamed for most of these things. I told them it was out of my control, but was ignored.
What do you think, are the things above my fault as HR Manager?
As an HR gal, would you have a potential legal complaint if you are being judged on something completely outside of your control such as recruiting and retention issues clearly the department manager should be responsible of?
I wouldn't sweat it. The Human Resource director at the last place I worked at simply kept track of stats regarding turnover, etc. She had no weight whatsoever on what personnel got hired. She would have weight on who got fired, but as you know especially in the corporate world there has to be a paper trail it seems like a mile long now of disciplinary procedures before someone can be let go because people are concerned about getting sued for wrongful termination.
Maybe if your company stinks then look for another job. There does seem to be HR positions that are in demand.
Can you read my post? I really confused about job status and really need someone to shine a light on the situation. Maybe you could help because of HR background.
Let's see, you were a lowly HR Generalist making peanuts. Then you got a shiny Masters degree and a job with the word "Manager" in it, maybe even went out to Sushi to celebrate. And then decided to pour your heart out on CD to tell your tale of whoa and hardship. When you get home from work, do you lay on your sofa with the back of your hand on your forehead and one leg hanging on the ground while staring off into the distance?
Me thinks someone is a bit too big for her britches.
Assuming this isn't a troll, is there anyone who has said being in HR is easy? Most people never see you until something bad happens so, of course, they relate you with bad events. Not that hard to figure out.
Sometimes I wish I was an accountant where I could just sit in a cubical and do my work and not talk to anyone or have anyone gossip about me or second guess me being an arm chair quarterback. In HR (where I am an a manager in charge of the whole function), there is always five or six ways to handle every problem and what ever solution you come up with, people will complain you made the wrong decision.
Sometimes I wish I was an accountant where I could just sit in a cubical and do my work and not talk to anyone or have anyone gossip about me or second guess me being an arm chair quarterback. In HR (where I am an a manager in charge of the whole function), there is always five or six ways to handle every problem and what ever solution you come up with, people will complain you made the wrong decision.
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